Cisco Channel Chief is calling distributors to focus on services and solutions. In an interview to trade website, he spelled out 5 point strategy to lead channel partners to new world of value added services and cloud computing.
Peres said that Cisco wants to ensure that its channel, which now accounts for 80 percent of the company’s business, evolves as the market requires partners to command new technologies and sophisticated implementation schemes.
“As Cisco moves to transitional and adjacent markets, partners will play a more important role than ever before,” …
Amazon.com Inc is stepping up social media efforts after the largest Internet retailer partially missed one of the hottest technology trends of recent years.
Amazon hired a director of social media, John Yurcisin, from WPP’s (WPP.L) Ogilvy & Mather earlier this year to help the company come up with social strategies. He is the brother of Jeff Yurcisin, the general manager of Shopbop.com, an apparel retail website owned by Amazon. REUTERS
ERP Logic, Inc. today announced that it is now a master value-added reseller (master VAR) within the SAP Extended Business program, focusing primarily on the SAP Business ByDesign(TM) solution. The prestigious title has been granted by SAP AG SAP -2.10% to the top-performing SAP channel partner in North America for outstanding contributions in the expansion of the SAP Business ByDesign solution. ERP Logic was confirmed as a master VAR during an internal meeting at SAP that focused on driving growth throughout the SAP ecosystem. MARKETWATCH
Wireless and communications solutions vendor Ascom is seeking to recruit more solution provider partners in the Middle East region as part of the company’s channel expansion drive to support the growing demand of its wireless and security communication solutions in the region.
Ascom will be focusing its partner appointment drive primarily in the GCC countries before extending its focus to other parts of the Middle East including the Levant region. ITP
Teradici Corporation, the developer of the innovative PC-over-IP(R) (PCoIP(R)) protocol that enables a true PC experience for desktop virtualization, today announced its new channel partner program in support of the APEX 2800 server offload card available in December of this year. The program will support reseller partners worldwide committed to selling the APEX 2800 server offload card, and will expand on the sales and marketing resources available to resellers currently selling the company’s line of PCoIP workstation and desktop solutions. MARKETWATCH
Colin Giles, executive vice president of global sales for Nokia Corporation NOK, admitted that there was truly some problems with the marketing channel in China in the last few days.
Not lone ago, the marketing channel of Nokia was reported to confronted with some difficulties in China, and channel distributors of China refused to replenish stock. In addition, Nokia’s financial report for the second quarter of 2011 was far from satisfactory. The mobile phone shipments in the Chinese market was only 11.3 million sets, which was not as half of that …
